Earth Day, Maryland Day, and Paleontology
Apr. 25th, 2010 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
entirelysonjaWe had a fun weekend! On Saturday, we headed out early to help with a stream clean-up effort in honor of Earth Day. After 45 minutes and two bags of trash, we called it quits and took the subway to the University of Maryland for Maryland Day.
It would be possible to spend an entire day at Maryland Day and not run out of things to do, but our kids didn't have that much stamina, so we focused on the arts area. We participated in a movement class, watched a modern dance performance, and enjoyed the instrument petting zoo, where the kids got to try different musical instruments. Erika especially enjoyed the clarinet -- she says she wants one. :-)
This afternoon, Erika and I finished up her pretending to be a paleontologist kit, in which she dug up dinosaur bones.
I was impressed with her attention span for this project, as it was pretty difficult to get the plastic bones out of the plaster. She probably spent at least five hours on it, spread out over the course of three or four days.
It would be possible to spend an entire day at Maryland Day and not run out of things to do, but our kids didn't have that much stamina, so we focused on the arts area. We participated in a movement class, watched a modern dance performance, and enjoyed the instrument petting zoo, where the kids got to try different musical instruments. Erika especially enjoyed the clarinet -- she says she wants one. :-)
This afternoon, Erika and I finished up her pretending to be a paleontologist kit, in which she dug up dinosaur bones.
I was impressed with her attention span for this project, as it was pretty difficult to get the plastic bones out of the plaster. She probably spent at least five hours on it, spread out over the course of three or four days.